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spring:bind and form:hidden are mutually exclusive, you only need to use one of them. There is no recommended procedure per se but from my personal experience i'd say use form tags because they keep the jsp clean.

As for carrying data through your command object, it depends on what you're trying to do. If you don't want the user to see the data being carried, use form:hidden.